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indurate(adjective) Emotionally hardened. Synonyms: callous, pachydermatousUsage: My father was once an affectionate man, but he returned from the war cold and indurate.
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Similar words: obdurate, endurance, endurable, duration, in duplicate, saturate, accurate, saturated. Meaning: ['ɪndjʊreɪt /-djʊər-] v. 1. become fixed or established 2. make hard or harder 3. become hard or harder 4. cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate. adj. emotionally hardened.
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(1) Great heat indurates clay.
(2) He is indurated to humble fare.
(3) The usage is now firmly indurated.
(4) Greediness indurated his heart.
(5) At surgical exploration , and indurate mass consisting of abscess within the omentum was identified.
(6) To verify the curative effect of He - Ne laser in the treatment of acne indurate cystica.
(7) The sculpture was so realistic that it seemed that at any moment the indurate marble form.
(8) The water filter is made of cast iron, cast steel, brass and stainless steel with small figure. It is indurate and easy to install.
(9) To verify the curative effect of He-Ne laser in the treatment of acne indurate cystic.
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The word is usually found in texts on geology. But can also be found in fiction: Quote:The frame of the white man, judging by such parts as were not concealed by his clothes, was like that of one who had known hardships and exertion from his earliest youth. His person, though muscular, was rather attenuated than full; but every nerve and muscle appeared strung and indurated by unremitted exposure and toil.
The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper
This book is on my list to read as is Billy Budd, by Herman Melville, which also features this word. -
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Indurate is a technical/scientific expression, and is elegantly accurate where that is appropriate. In general literatture, obdurate is more appropriate
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Indurate:
Verb:
Harden.
"A bed of indurated clay"
Oxford Dictionary
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Another world found mainly in writing.
Synonyms: callous, pachydermatous
Usage: My father was once an affectionate man, but he returned from the war cold and indurate.
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Indurate
synonyms: Callous, pachydermatous
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Of those 'similar words' only the words with 'dur' are similar. The others just have an -ate ending in common. Dur- = hard/long endure, indurate, obdurate, durable
During, duration
Epidural, subdural, as in epidural injection, subdural hematoma - on top of or under the membrane called the dura mater - Quote:from Medieval Latin dura mater cerebri (literally “hard mother of the brain”),
a loan translation of Arabic أُمّ الدِّمَاغ الصَفِيقَة (ʾumm ad-dimāḡ aṣ-ṣafīqa, literally “thick mother of the brain, matrix of the brain”).
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